EP0418085B1 - Dispositif d'alimentation pour copie recto-verso combinant inversion et déplacement latéral - Google Patents

Dispositif d'alimentation pour copie recto-verso combinant inversion et déplacement latéral Download PDF

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EP0418085B1
EP0418085B1 EP90310044A EP90310044A EP0418085B1 EP 0418085 B1 EP0418085 B1 EP 0418085B1 EP 90310044 A EP90310044 A EP 90310044A EP 90310044 A EP90310044 A EP 90310044A EP 0418085 B1 EP0418085 B1 EP 0418085B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • G03G15/22—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern involving the combination of more than one step according to groups G03G13/02 - G03G13/20
    • G03G15/23—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern involving the combination of more than one step according to groups G03G13/02 - G03G13/20 specially adapted for copying both sides of an original or for copying on both sides of a recording or image-receiving material
    • G03G15/231—Arrangements for copying on both sides of a recording or image-receiving material
    • G03G15/232—Arrangements for copying on both sides of a recording or image-receiving material using a single reusable electrographic recording member
    • G03G15/234—Arrangements for copying on both sides of a recording or image-receiving material using a single reusable electrographic recording member by inverting and refeeding the image receiving material with an image on one face to the recording member to transfer a second image on its second face, e.g. by using a duplex tray; Details of duplex trays or inverters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
    • B65H2301/33214—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis perpendicular to the direction of displacement and parallel to the surface of material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3322—Turning, overturning according to a determined angle
    • B65H2301/33224—180°
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • B65H2301/342—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement with change of plane of displacement
    • B65H2301/3422—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement with change of plane of displacement by travelling a path section in arc of circle

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  • the present invention relates to print substrate handling and duplex reproduction and more particularly to a short edge feed duplex operation producing book style duplex prints.
  • a photoconductive insulating member In an electrostatographic reproducing apparatus commonly in use today, a photoconductive insulating member is typically charged to a uniform potential and thereafter exposed to a light image of an original document to be reproduced. The exposure discharges the photoconductive insulating surface in exposed or background areas and creates an electrostatic latent image on the member which corresponds to the image areas contained within the usual document. Subsequently, the electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive insulating surface is made visible by developing the image with developing powder referred to in the art as toner.
  • Most development systems employ a developer material which comprises both charged carrier particles and charged toner particles which triboelectrically adhere to the carrier particles.
  • the toner particles are attracted from the carrier particles by the charge pattern of the image areas in the photoconductive insulating area to form a powder image on the photoconductive area.
  • This image may subsequently be transferred to a support surface such as copy paper to which it may be permanently affixed by heating or by the application of pressure.
  • the photoconductive insulating member is cleaned of any residual toner that may remain thereon in preparation for the next imaging cycle.
  • Duplex copying i.e. copying image information to both sides of a single sheet of paper
  • Duplex copying is desirable because it reduces the amount of paper required in copying in comparison to simplex (single side) copying, produces attractive copy sets, and can simulate the appearance of a printed book.
  • Such copying is accomplished in either one of two methods.
  • first side copies are produced in a reproduction processor and stacked in a duplex tray.
  • the copies are fed out of the duplex tray and returned to the reproduction processor with an odd number of inversions in the total duplex path to receive second side image information, and subsequently passed to an output.
  • first side copies may each be returned directly to the reproduction processor to receive second side copies thereon, without stacking, for example, as described in U.S. patent 4,660,963).
  • This type of copying finds particular use with respect to copying two documents placed on a platen for sequential copying, sometimes referred to as two-up copying.
  • Book style duplex copying refers to the production of duplex copy sets which are suitable for reading as a book from top to bottom from the same sheet edge, with the image top portion on both sides of the sheet adjacent the top edge of the sheet, for binding along a side edge with respect to the image.
  • This portrait style image appearance is generally only achieved in the present duplex-capable reproduction machines, however, when copy sheets are fed through the reproduction processor to receive image information on one or both sides of the copy sheet with the image top to bottom alignment or orientation, as the image is normally viewed, oriented on the sheet transverse to the direction of sheet feeding.
  • the width of the paper path and processing elements in such a machine are only required to accommodate the 216 mm length of the sheet as opposed to a machine required to accommodate at least 279 mm widths to accommodate the long edge feed of 216 X 279 mm sheets.
  • this narrow process width arrangement ordinarily precludes the desirable book style duplex from simplex documents, as the bulk of simplex documents copied have images oriented with the image top portion adjacent a short edge of the document sheet.
  • an operator desiring to produce duplex copies from simplex documents on SEF sheets must manually rotate every other document to be copied by 180° prior to copying. This is inconvenient, and potentially confusing, allowing the possibility of operator errors.
  • the machine comprises image forming means, and sheet feeding and transporting means for transporting successive sheets with an image on one side back to the image forming means for forming an image on the otner side of each sheet.
  • the sheet feeding and transporting means includes an inverter for inventing sheets twice about an axis perpendicular to the transport path, and a side shifting inverter to invert the sheets once about an axis parallel with the sheet path.
  • the present invention is directed to an alternative apparatus for implementing the duplexing operation of Brooke et al. or the above referenced copending application.
  • an automatic printing machine for producing successive duplex prints comprising means for forming an image on a print substrate, means for feeding successive print substrates to said image forming means to form an image on a first side of successive print substrates, means defining a substrate transport path to transport successive substrates having images on a first side to said image forming means to form images on the opposite side of said substrate, said substrate transport path including means to invert each successive substrate twice about an axis perpendicular to the direction of said path, and a side shifting inverter to invert successive substrates once about an axis parallel to said path direction, characterised by said inverter comprising spaced apart baffles forming guides for substrates transported therebetween, and defining a substrate entry portion, an arcuate substrate inverting portion and a substrate exit portion; one of the baffles in the entry portion having at least one aperture therein, a rotatable segmented drive roll having a flat segmented portion and a curved segmented
  • At least one spring shoe is provided for engagement with each of at least one drive roll, rotatable segmented drive roll and registration roll to form a substrate driving nip therebetween.
  • the substrate transport path sequentially includes means to invert successive substrates about an axis perpendicular to the direction of said path, the inverter to invert successive substrates about an axis parallel to the path direction and second means to invert successive substrates about an axis perpendicular to the direction of the path.
  • the inverter and a portion of the substrate transport path on each side of the inverter are included in a cassette removable from the printing machine which is interchangeable with a normal print substrate cassette.
  • the inner and outer arcuate turn baffles of the cassette each comprise an upper and lower section and the upper section of the inner turn baffle is connected to the lower guide baffle of the second substrate guide means, the upper section of the outer guide baffle is connected to the upper guide baffle of the second substrate guide means, the lower section of the inner turn baffle is connected to the top substrate insertion baffle of the first substrate guide means and the lower section of the outer guide baffle is connected to the bottom substrate insertion baffle of the first substrate guide means.
  • the bottom substrate insertion baffle and the upper guide baffle are supported by and hingedly attached to a rear support member to enable pivotal movement away from the top sheet insertion baffle and lower guide baffle respectively.
  • the inner and outer arcuate turn baffles have raised rib portions to corrugate and thereby stiffen a substrate.
  • top sheet insertion baffle and the lower guide baffle are arranged to form an interior assembly within the upper guide baffle and the bottom sheet insertion baffle which includes at least one rotatable segmented drive roll, one drive roll and one rotatable segmented registration roll together with means to drive the rolls.
  • the curved portion of the segmented drive roll has an arc sufficiently long to transport the lead edge of a substrate to the take away transport.
  • the first substrate guide means is positioned beneath the second substrate guide means and further including at least one flexible substrate restraining finger to urge a substrate in the first substrate guide means toward the bottom sheet insertion baffle and at least one flexible substrate restraining finger toward a substrate in the second substrate guide means toward the upper guide baffle.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic representation in cross section of an automatic printing machine with the duplex path and side shifting inverter according to the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is an isometric representation of the print substrate duplex path.
  • Figure 3 is a isometric representation of the various drive mechanisms which may be contained within the interior assembly of the cassette.
  • Figure 4 is an exploded isometric view of the duplex cassette.
  • Figure 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view through one of the drive rolls illustrating a portion of the substrate transport path.
  • Figure 6 is a sectional view illustrating the opening of the duplex cassette by raising the upper guide baffle and lowering the bottom sheet insertion baffle to enable substrate jam clearance.
  • Figure 7 is an isometric representation of an alternative embodiment wherein the print substrate enters the duplex cassette at the top and leaves the duplex cassette at the bottom.
  • Figure 8 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the overlapping of successive sheet substrates.
  • an automatic electrostatographic reproducing machine 10 illustrating the various components utilized therein for producing copies from an original document.
  • the apparatus of the present invention is particularly well adapted for use in automatic electrostatographic reproducing machines, it should become evident from the following description that it is equally well suited for use in a wide variety of processing systems including other electrostatographic systems such as electronic printers and is not necessarily limited in application to the particular embodiment or embodiment shown herein.
  • the reproducing machine 10 illustrated in Figure 1 employs a removable processing cartridge 12 which may be inserted and withdrawn from the main machine frame in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • Cartridge 12 includes an image recording belt like member 14 the outer periphery of which is coated with a suitable photoconductive material 15.
  • the belt is suitably mounted for revolution within the cartridge about driven transport roll 16, around idler roll 18 and travels in the direction indicated by the arrows on the inner run of the belt to bring the image bearing surface thereon past the plurality of xerographic processing stations.
  • Suitable drive means such as a motor, not shown, are provided to power and coordinate the motion of the various cooperating machine components whereby a faithful reproduction of the original input scene information is recorded upon a sheet of final support material 31, such as paper or the like.
  • the belt 14 moves the photoconductive surface 15 through a charging station 19 wherein the belt is uniformly charged with an electrostatic charge placed on the photoconductive surface by charge corotron 20 in known manner preparatory to imaging. Thereafter, the belt 14 is driven to exposure station 21 wherein the charged photoconductive surface 15 is exposed to the light image of the original input scene information, whereby the charge is selectively dissipated in the light exposed regions to record the original input scene in the form of electrostatic latent image.
  • the optical arrangement creating the latent image comprises a scanning optical system with lamp 17 and mirrors M1, M2, M3 mounted to a a scanning carriage (not shown)to scan the original document D on the imaging platen 23, lens 22 and mirrors M4, M5, M6 to transmit the image to the photoconductive belt in known manner.
  • the speed of the scanning carriage and the speed of the photoconductive belt are synchronized to provide a faithful reproduction of the original document.
  • the development station includes a magnetic brush development system including developer roll 25 utilizing a magnetizable developer mix having coarse magnetic carrier granules and toner colorant particles.
  • Sheets 31 of the final support material are supported in a stack arranged on elevated stack support tray 26. With the stack at its elevated position, the sheet separator segmented feed roll 27 feeds individual sheets therefrom to the registration pinch roll pair 28. The sheet is then forwarded to the transfer station 29 in proper registration with the image on the belt and the developed image on the photoconductive surface 15 is brought into contact with the sheet 31 of final support material within the transfer station 29 and the toner image is transferred from the photoconductive surface 15 to the contacting side of the final support sheet 31 by means of transfer corotron 30.
  • the final support material which may be paper, plastic, etc., as desired, is separated from the belt by the beam strength of the support material 31 as the belt passes around the idler roll 18, and the sheet containing the toner image thereon is advanced to fixing station 41 wherein roll fuser 32 fixes the transferred powder image thereto.
  • the sheet 31 may be advanced by output rolls 33 to sheet stacking tray 34 or alternatively to duplex path side shifting inverter 40.
  • the cleaning station 35 which comprises a cleaning blade 36 in scrapping contact with the outer periphery of the belt 14 and contained within cleaning housing 48 which has a cleaning seal 37 associated with the upstream opening of the cleaning housing.
  • the toner particles may be mechanically cleaned from the photoconductive surface by a cleaning brush as is well known in the art.
  • duplex path side shifting inverter 40 The operation of the duplex path side shifting inverter 40 will be described with continued reference to Figure 1 and additional reference to the remaining Figures.
  • Figure 2 is an exploded isometric representation of the print substrate path from the support tray through the printing machine to receive a first image on a first side, through an inversion about an axis perpendicular to the direction of the path, through a side shifting inverter 40 where the print substrate is inverted about an axis parallel to the path direction and finally through a second inversion about an axis perpendicular to the direction of the path to arrive in the print substrate path just upstream of the first processing station in the printing machine, the belt 14, to receive a second image on the opposite side of the print substrate to form the duplex print.
  • the duplex inverter cassette comprises a first substrate guide means comprising a top sheet insertion baffle 44 and bottom sheet insertion baffle 45.
  • the bottom sheet insertion baffle in effect forms a bottom cover or lid for the cassette.
  • the direction reversing arcuate substrate guide means comprises an inner arcuate turn baffle 59 and an outer arcuate turn baffle 60 each of which include an upper section 59a, 60a and a lower section 59b, 60b as illustrated.
  • the upper section of the inner turn baffle 59a is connected to the lower guide baffle 70 of the second substrate guide means 69, 70 while the upper section of the outer turn baffle 60a is connected to the upper guide baffle 69 of the second substrate guide means 69,70.
  • the lower section of the inner turn baffle 59b is connected to the top substrate insertion baffle 44 of the first substrate guide means 44,45 and the lower section of the outer turn baffle 60b is connected to the bottom substrate insertion baffle 45 of the first substrate guide means 44, 45.
  • turn baffles may be employed and connected to the appropriate insertion and guide baffles.
  • the turn baffles may be formed integrally with the insertion and guide baffles if desired.
  • the upper guide baffle 69 can function as a top lid for the cassette inverter.
  • they both may be mounted to a rear support member 72 by means of hinge 73 to enable pivotal movement of the bottom sheet insertion baffle 45 and upper guide baffle 69 away from the top sheet insertion baffle 44 and the lower guide baffle 70 respectively to facilitate a jam clearance within the cassette as will be described in greater detail.
  • the top sheet insertion baffle 44 and the lower guide baffle 70 form an interior assembly 74 within the upper guide baffle 69 and the bottom sheet insertion baffle 44 which provides a housing for the various drive mechanisms as will be described hereinafter.
  • the drive mechanism is more clearly illustrated in Figure 3 and includes a pair of substrate feed-in rolls 81 which extend through the apertures 75 in the top sheet insertion baffle 44 and may be continuously driven to be in substrate driving engagement with spring shoes 63a on the bottom sheet insertion baffle 45.
  • the spring shoes which typically have a slippery surface or low coefficient of friction and may be made from stainless steel, for example, provide the normal force to urge the substrate toward the feed rolls.
  • the substrate inversion is initiated by activation of a rotatable segmented drive roll 51 having a flat segmented portion 52 and a curve segmented portion 53 which extends through an aperture 50 in the top sheet insertion baffle when rotated to provide driving engagement with a spring shoe 63b to drive the substrate through a direction reversing arcuate substrate guide means comprising the inner arcuate turn baffle 59b and the outer arcuate turn baffle 60b.
  • the segmented drive roll 51 is parked with the flat side of the roll down when sheet is being fed by the substrate feed rolls 81 into the first substrate guide means.
  • the segmented drive roll or rollers 51 are actuated through clutch 79 and rotated to extend the arcuate or curved portion through the aperture 50 to transport a sheet toward the direction reversing arcuate substrate guide means.
  • the curved portion of the segmented drive roll has sufficient arc in one rotation to transport a substrate so that its lead edge will engage the nip between rotatable drive roll 62 and spring shoe 63b.
  • the segmented drive roll is parked with the flat segmented portion down so that the next entering substrate will not hit the curved portion of the segmented drive roll but rather will be freely fed to the first substrate guide 44,45.
  • the rotatable drive rolls 62 which may be constantly driven extend through apertures 61 in the lower guide baffle 70 and engage spring shoes (not shown) in the upper guide baffle 69 to transport a substrate around a direction reversing path into the second substrate guide means 69,70 toward a registration edge 80 parallel to the direction of substrate transport path.
  • the substrate is registered and deskewed by a flat segmented registration roll 71 having a flat segmented portion 71a and a curved segmented portion 71b the curve portion extending through an aperture 75 in the lower guide baffle 70 so that when the curved segmented portion is rotated it will extend through the lower guide baffle and engage a substrate driving it toward the registration edge 80 where it is deskewed and registered prior to being driven out of the cassette into take-away rolls 88.
  • the arc on the segmented registration roll should have sufficient engagement with the substrate being transported to enable it to transport it to the take-away rolls 88.
  • the feed rolls segmented drive roll
  • the rotatable drive rolls are made from a silicon rubber such as a HTV silicon rubber having a coefficient of friction of about 1.4 which enables them to have sufficient drive force to feed a typical substrate.
  • the segmented deskewing and registration roll typically has a somewhat lower coefficient of friction of the order of about 0.8 to enable a substrate to more readily deskew under the action of the roll.
  • the segmented registration roll is parked with the flat side down as a substrate is driven forward in the second substrate guide path by the drive rolls. The overlapping capability of successive substrates is more clearly illustrated with reference to Figures 5 and Figure 8.
  • substrate S1 is being transported by the segmented registration roll 71 (not shown) in a direction into the Figure whereas sheet S2 is being transported upwardly and to the left by the drive roll 62 toward the second substrate guide path.
  • the trail edge of S1 is urged upwardly by a plurality of flexible substrate restraining fingers 65 toward the upper guide baffle to enable insertion of the subsequent sheet by the drive roll in the second substrate guide path.
  • the flexible restraining fingers are made from a thin polyester film such as 0.15 mm Mylar.
  • a plurality of fingers may be used to urge the leading substrate in the first substrate guide path downwardly toward the bottom sheet insertion baffle to enable a partial overlap of an incoming substrate from the feed rolls.
  • FIG 5 substrate S2 will contact flexible restraining fingers 65 and to enable it to have sufficient beam strength to deflect the flexible restraining finger a slight corrugation is formed in sheet S2 by means of ribs 64 in the inner and outer arcuate turn baffles 59a and 60a.
  • Figure 8 illustrates an alternative technique enabling overlapping which is described in greater detail in the above-referenced copending application wherein the corners of successive substrates are overlapped by providing a substrate entrance to the inverter which is at a level higher than the level of substrate transport in the inverter perpendicular to the direction of transport and the substrate exit from the inverter is at a level higher than the level of substrate transport from the inverter.
  • Figure 8 is representative of substrate feed-in rolls 81 feeding a sheet S4 toward the right into the first substrate guide path 44, 45 while the segmented drive roll 51 (not shown) is feeding sheet S3 out of the Figure.
  • the jam clearance feature is more readily illustrated with reference to Figure 6 wherein the bottom substrate insertion baffle 45 and upper guide baffle 69 are illustrated as being supported by and hingedly attached to a rear support member to enable pivotable movement of them away from the top sheet insertion baffle and lower guide baffle 44 respectively to enable withdrawal of any jammed sheet.
  • the cassette inverter may be removed form the main body of the printing machine, opened in a matter indicated in Figure 6 and the jammed substrate removed or other appropriate action taken.
  • Figure 7 illustrates an alternative embodiment of an inverting cassette wherein the substrate entering the inverting cassette enters at a level higher than it exits the inverting cassette and is inverted around the path from top to bottom.
  • the various drive mechanisms are contained within an interior assembly 74 and include the substrate feed-in rolls, the rotatable segmented drive roll, the rotatable inverting drive rolls and the rotatable segmented registration roll.
  • the substrate feed-in rolls 81 and the inverting drive rolls 62 may be constantly driven by motor 78 which may also be contained within the interior assembly 74.
  • the rotatable segmented drive roll 51 and segmented registration roll 71 may also be driven by motor 78 through clutches 79 such as a solenoid actuated wrap spring clutches to provide only one turn to enable parking in the flat position thereby not interferring with the subsequent entry of the substrate to the first substrate guide path and second substrate guide path.
  • the inverting cassette may be inserted and withdrawn from the main body of the copier from the front by sliding in and out on rails 85.
  • conventional means are employed for the printing machine to identify the type of cassette, and to provide the necessary power and control signals for its appropriate operation.
  • duplex capability for the relatively small, inexpensive low volume copier market at a relatively low price since it is only required to replace a conventional substrate cassette with a duplex inverting design cassette. This provides additional capability and selection for users in the low volume market. Furthermore, since the cassette is removable it may be exchanged for a new or different one if any mechanical or electrical difficulty arises. It has the further advantage of enabling rapid clearance of a substrate jam.

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  1. Machine à imprimer automatique pour produire des impressions recto-verso successives comprenant un moyen (22, 23, 12) pour former une image sur un support d'impression, un moyen pour délivrer des supports d'impression successifs (31) audit moyen de formation d'image afin de former une image sur une première face de supports d'impression successifs, un moyen (41, 42, 40) définissant un trajet de transport de support pour transporter les supports successifs ayant des images sur une première face vers ledit moyen de formation d'image afin de former des images sur la face opposée dudit support, ledit trajet de transport de support comportant un moyen pour inverser chaque support successif deux fois autour d'un axe perpendiculaire à la direction dudit trajet et un inverseur à déplacement latéral (40) pour inverser les supports successifs une fois autour d'un axe parallèle à ladite direction de trajet, caractérisé par ledit inverseur à déplacement latéral (40) comprenant des déflecteurs espacés formant des guides pour les supports transportés entre ceux-ci et définissant une partie d'entrée de support (44, 45), une partie d'inversion de support en forme d'arc (59A, 59B, 60A, 60B) et une partie de sortie de support (69, 70), un des déflecteurs dans la partie entrée ayant au moins une ouverture (50) dans celui-ci, un rouleau d'entraînement rotatif à segment (51) ayant une partie de segment plate (52) et une partie de segment incurvée (53), ladite partie incurvée s'étendant à travers ladite ouverture lorsque ledit rouleau d'entraînement est tourné pour être mis en prise d'entraînement de support avec le déflecteur restant, ladite partie de segment plate dudit rouleau d'entraînement ne se prolongeant pas à travers ladite ouverture lorsqu'adjacente à ladite ouverture, un des déflecteurs dans la partie incurvée ayant au moins une ouverture (61) dans celui-ci et avec au moins un rouleau d'entraînement rotatif (62) s'étendant à travers ladite ouverture dans ledit trajet de transport de support pour transporter un support et un des déflecteurs dans la partie de sortie comportant un moyen (71, 75) pour redresser et aligner des supports successifs suivant un bord parallèle à la direction de trajet de transport du support, ledit moyen pour redresser et aligner comprenant une ouverture (75) dans le déflecteur et un rouleau d'alignement à segment rotatif (71) ayant une partie de segment plate (71A) et une partie de segment incurvée (71B), ladite partie incurvée se prolongeant à travers ladite ouverture (75) lorsque ledit rouleau d'alignement est tourné pour être mis en prise d'entraînement de support avec le déflecteur restant, ledit rouleau d'alignement étant incliné par rapport audit bord d'alignement pour procurer le redressement et l'alignement d'un support lorsqu'un support est entraîné par ledit rouleau d'alignement vers ledit bord d'alignement.
  2. Machine à imprimer selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ledit inverseur (40) et une partie dudit trajet de transport de support sur chaque côté dudit inverseur à déplacement sont inclus dans une cassette amovible de la machine à imprimer.
  3. Cassette recto-verso pour utilisation dans une machine à imprimer automatique pour produire des impressions recto-verso, ladite cassette comportant une partie du trajet de support d'impression recto-verso comportant un inverseur de déplacement latéral (40) pour inverser les supports successifs une fois autour d'un axe parallèle audit trajet, ledit inverseur à déplacement latéral comprenant des déflecteur espacés formant des guides pour les supports transportés entre ceux-ci et définissant une partie d'entrée de support (44, 45), une partie d'insertion de support en forme d'arc (59A, 59B, 60A, 60B) et une partie de sortie de support (69, 70), un des déflecteurs dans la partie entrée ayant au moins une ouverture dans celui-ci (50) un rouleau d'entraînement rotatif à segment (51) ayant une partie de segment plate (52) et une partie de segment incurvée (53), ladite partie incurvée s'étendant à travers ladite ouverture lorsque ledit rouleau d'entraînement est tourné pour être mis en prise d'entraînement de support avec le déflecteur restant, ladite partie de segment plate dudit rouleau d'entraînement ne s'étendant pas à travers ladite ouverture lorsqu'adjacente à ladite ouverture, un des déflecteurs dans la partie en forme d'arc ayant au moins une ouverture (61) dans celui-ci et avec au moins un rouleau d'entraînement rotatif (62) s'étendant à travers ladite ouverture dans ledit trajet de transport de support pour transporter un support et un des déflecteurs dans la partie de sortie comportant un moyen (71, 75) pour redresser et aligner des supports successifs suivant un bord parallèle à la direction de trajet de transport de support, ledit moyen pour redresser et aligner comprenant une ouverture (75) dans le déflecteur et un rouleau d'alignement rotatif à segment (71) ayant une partie de segment plate (71A) et une partie de segment incurvée (71B), ladite partie incurvée s'étendant à travers ladite ouverture (75) lorsque ledit rouleau d'alignement est tourné pour être mis en prise d'entraînement de support avec le déflecteur restant, ledit rouleau d'alignement étant incliné par rapport audit bord d'alignement pour procurer le redressement et l'alignement d'un support lorsqu'un support est entraîné par ledit rouleau d'alignement vers ledit bord d'alignement.
  4. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3 comportant de plus au moins un sabot à ressort en prise avec ledit au moins un rouleau d'entraînement (62) formant une zone de contact d'entraînement de support entre ceux-ci.
  5. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle un sabot à ressort est monté sur le déflecteur restant afin de former une zone de contact d'entraînement de support entre lui et la partie de segment incurvée dudit rouleau d'entraînement rotatif à segment (51) lorsque ledit rouleau tourne à travers ladite ouverture.
  6. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans laquelle un sabot à ressort est monté sur le déflecteur restant pour former une zone de contact d'entraînement de support entre celui-ci et la partie de segment incurvée dudit rouleau d'alignement (71).
  7. Machine à imprimer selon la revendication 1, comportant de plus un moyen (81) pour délivrer un support à la partie entrée des déflecteurs.
  8. Machine à imprimer selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ledit trajet de transport de support comporte séquentiellement un moyen (41, 42) pour inverser des supports successifs autour d'un axe perpendiculaire à la direction dudit trajet, ledit inverseur (40) pour inverser les supports successifs autour d'un axe parallèle à ladite direction de trajet et un second moyen (88, 28) pour inverser les supports successifs autour d'un axe perpendiculaire à la direction dudit trajet.
  9. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, dans laquelle la partie incurvée (53) du rouleau d'entraînement à segment (51) présente un arc suffisamment long pour transporter le bord avant d'un support vers le moyen de transport (62) dans ledit moyen de guidage en forme d'arc.
  10. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, dans laquelle la partie en forme d'arc des déflecteurs comprend des parties interne et externe comprenant chacune une section supérieure et une section inférieure et la section supérieure (59A) du déflecteur interne est raccordée au déflecteur de guidage inférieur (70) de la partie de sortie, la section supérieure (60A) du déflecteur externe est raccordée au déflecteur de guidage supérieur de la partie de sortie, la section inférieure (59B) du déflecteur interne est raccordée au déflecteur supérieur (44) de la partie d'entrée et la section inférieure (60B) du déflecteur externe est raccordée au déflecteur inférieur (45) de la partie entrée.
  11. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon la revendication 10, dans laquelle le déflecteur extérieur de la partie entrée (45) et le déflecteur extérieur de la partie sortie (69) sont supportés par un élément de support arrière (73) et fixés par charnière pour permettre un mouvement pivotant desdits déflecteurs extérieurs à l'opposé desdits déflecteurs internes.
  12. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 11, dans laquelle ledites parties de déflecteur arqué comportent des parties de nervures surélevées pour onduler et de ce fait raidir un support.
  13. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon l'une quelconque des revendications 10 à 12, dans laquelle ledit déflecteur interne de la partie entrée (44) et ledit déflecteur interne de la partie sortie (70) sont disposés pour former un ensemble intérieur dans lesdits déflecteurs extérieurs (45, 69), ledit ensemble intérieur comportant ledit au moins un rouleau d'entraînement rotatif à segment (51), ledit au moins un rouleau d'entraînement (61), ledit rouleau d'alignement rotatif à segment (71) et un moyen pour entraîner lesdits rouleaux.
  14. Machine à imprimer ou cassette selon la revendication 13 dans laquelle ladite partie entrée est positionnée au-dessous de ladite partie sortie et comportant au moins un doigt de limitation de support souple pour pousser un support dans la partie entrée vers le déflecteur extérieur et au moins un doigt de limitation de support souple pour pousser un support dans la partie sortie vers le déflecteur extérieur.
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